SIGIR Forum, Volume 32

Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 1998

• Title.
  
• Michael Lesk:
  Real World Searching Panel at SIGIR 97. 1-4
  
• Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Judy Bateman, Tefko Saracevic:
  Real Life Information Retrieval: A Study of User Queries on the Web. 5-17
  
• Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat:
  Exploring the Similarity Space. 18-34
  
• Announcements. 35-47
  

Volume 32, Number 2, Fall 1998

• Title.
  
• Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Chair's Message. 1-2
  

• Steve Kirsch:
  Infoseek's Experiences Searching the Internet. 3-7
  
• Eric W. Brown, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web. 8-13
  
• Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Christopher R. Palmer:
  An Overview of MultiText. 14-15
  
• David Hawking:
  Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-Offs in Query Processing. 16-22
  
• Noriko Kando, Kyo Kageura, Masaharu Yoshioka, Keizo Oyama:
  Phrase Processing Methods for Japanese Text Retrieval. 23-28
  
• Rohini K. Srihari, Zhongfei Zhang, R. Manmatha, Chandu Ravela:
  Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Summary Report. 29-30
  
• Birgit Schmidt-Wesche, Gene Golovchinsky:
  Query Input and User Expectations, Summary Report. 31-34
  
• Announcements. 35-37